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Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...history of careless driving incidents. and so on. We conclude that there were many factors contributing to the cause and the severity of the incident. Figure 6, showing the effect of the four factors Environment, Engineering, Education and Enforcement (the four Es) on road accidents, is actually a very simplified multiple cause diagram, drawn from the perspective of, say,...
Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...history of children’s book illustrations. Activity 1 Iona and Peter Opie’s famous collection of children’s books was acquired by the Bodleian Library in 1988 and contains approximately 20 000 books printed for children between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. Watch the following video that features a visit to this collection at the Bodleian’s Weston Library...
Squares, roots and powers
Science, Maths & Technology

Squares, roots and powers

...family that she might like to have to stay. She replied that she would like to have her two daughters the following week, so four bags of rice then would be a great help. The king agreed to this and suggested that she might like to think of having more of her family to stay. He said he would be prepared to double the number of bags he gave her each week. At this point his...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Getting started with Chinese 1
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 1

...family and friends; let them know you have decided to start learning Chinese and they can help you when you practise what you have been learning, or leave you in peace when you need to study. After completing this course, you will be able to: say hello and goodbye and thank people in Mandarin Chinese respond to greeting and thanks use personal pronouns including the...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The metagenomics revolution: an introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

The metagenomics revolution: an introduction

...families, and 40 genera. Several dominant species were identified, alongside eight rare species and two non‑native (exotic) species, highlighting both conservation value and potential ecological threats. Interestingly, when compared with historical data and conventional ground‑cage sampling, eDNA revealed significantly higher species richness, showing it to be more...
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...history of working together in the past and an expectation of working together in the future. Understanding how these dimensions apply to your own team experiences might be helpful when explaining your role within the team to future employers. For example, reflecting on whether you brought specialised knowledge to the team or to what degree you were responsible for...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Investigating a murder with forensic psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating a murder with forensic psychology

...family. It would have been my mum’s birthday, had she still been alive. And we always go together on her birthday, to visit her. We go to the crematorium and visit the headstone. She died from cancer a few years back. Dad likes it if I go with him. It might sound a bit morbid to you, I don’t know. But it doesn’t feel like that. We look forward to it, to be honest....
Working with young people: roles and responsibilities
Education & Development

Working with young people: roles and responsibilities

...families. Intense expressions of emotion are sometimes too much for adults to cope with, and in the wider community the expression of strong feelings by young people, whether anger or boisterousness, can be frightening or viewed as unacceptable. What is sometimes referred to as ‘emotional literacy’ is the ability to register and take account of the strong feelings...